Whether it's on an online sales site, a portfolio website or a blog, it is essential to set up a system that allows users to easily find the information they are looking for.
For a good experience, your visitors should not wait several minutes to find what they came to your site for. Fortunately, on WordPress, there is recently a new plugin that makes it easier to find and filter data from a website. Christened WP Grid Builder , this is a French solution that makes it possible to Create a faceted search system on WordPress .
WP Grid Builder: Overview
So let's start with the presentation of this new WordPress plugin. WP Grid Builder (or GridBuilder, GridBuilder WP) is a plugin that allows Create and filter content for e-commerce sites, portfolio sites and blogs. It is a solution developed by the French software company Themeone . It therefore offers to help you Create filterable grids in real time , without any reloading and with any type of content.
But that's not all, WP Grid Builder is a plugin that also offers to create custom sliders with the possibility of adding any type of data. Finally, you have the possibility, with this solution, to create Filterable content cards , a bit like Airbnb does to present available properties.
WP Grid Builder is a premium plugin and doesn't offer a free version, at least not at the moment. It has built-in support for Gutenberg, WooCommerce, and Easy Digital Downloads . It also works with search tools SearchWP and Relevanssi . It natively supports advanced custom fields. It also works with Polylang and WPML .
In addition to the built-in support, WP Grid Builder has a few extensions that allow for additional integrations. Oxygen Builder and Elementor page builders are supported. There is an integration with LearnDash for displaying course information, a map integration, and a caching component.
If you are not using one of the constructors that has a direct integration, you can use the Shortcodes that WP Grid Builder provides to display grids and facets. The shortcodes method also allows you to use grids and facets with regular WordPress archives. But for this, the installed theme must use the standard WordPress queries.
WP Grid Builder is offered in Annual subscription plans for 1, 3 and an unlimited number of websites, with a discount when renewing your offer.
What is a faceted search?
Now that you have a general idea of what is possible with the plugin WP Grid Builder , let's see what faceted research means. The Faceted Research , also known as Faceted Research or Faceted Navigation , is a navigation mode that allows the user to filter content. It is a system that makes access to a product, on an online sales site for example, more efficient for the Internet user.
A website with good faceted navigation offers its users the opportunity to Filter content on the basis of a number of criteria (facets). These facets can be, for example, related to:
- to the type of results
- to the language
- on the date of publication of the content
- the presence of keywords or phrases related to a search
- the presence of named entities such as an organization or place, etc.
Apart from the fact that faceted search makes it easy for people to find the content they need, it also allows users to Optimize the natural referencing of a website . Indeed, the pages will be better optimized and accessible to robots according to the different combinations of filters.
Features of WP Grid Builder
WP Grid Builder comes with all the features you might need to create Layouts like a pro. Unlike its competitors, this plugin makes it very easy to create layouts for your e-commerce site, portfolio website, and blog, among others.
Once installed on your WordPress site, the plugin offers several features such as:
- seamless integration with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, SearchWP, Relevanssi, Polylang, WPML, Advanced Custom Fields, and Gutenberg
- an advanced filtering system that allows you to efficiently sort WordPress content by taxonomy terms (custom), post fields, or custom fields
- More than 15 types of facets that make it easier for your users to navigate: checkboxes, sliders, ratings, extra load buttons, reset buttons, and much more
- Import and export so you can easily transfer your WP Grid Builder settings to another site
- A drag-and-drop grid builder with over 20 ready-to-use and easy-to-customize grid cards
- more than 3 grid layouts, including Masonry, Justified, and Metro.
- over 900 Google Fonts
- more than 250 SVG icons
- Support for image display formats, videos (including embedded elements from sites such as YouTube), galleries, and audio files.
Finally, let's add that the plugin allows you to create a 100% responsive and SEO-friendly faceted search system. This is because WP Grid Builder is W3C compliant and uses SEO best practices.
What about the price?
WP Grid Builder is a plugin that stands out for its Getting started . The solution is entirely in French and will save you a lot of time in setting up complex and advanced features. For your e-commerce site, portfolio website or blog projects, Studio Cassette's professionals can help you set up and configure the plugin WP Grid Builder .
When it comes to its cost, the price of the plugin is quite affordable for its features. The solution is available at the price of:
- $49/year for 1 site
- $99/year for 3 sites
- $249/year for unlimited websites.
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At Studi o Cassette we can help you discover, get started and install the WP Grid Builder tool within your WordPress site. Feel free to Contact us .
